There were also the Organa family in the KOTOR era. Guess what? It was broadly hinted that they were very corrupt.

And sometimes they threw a curveball - like how "Antilles" is essentially the "Jones" of the SW universe and they aren't all related, or C-3P0 revealing that Han Solo, in fact, was not related to a famous Solo centuries ago.

Considering that the New Canon spans less than a century, there's really no way to compare the two though.

Well, honestly... not much. To me, it's an alternate timeline, but I'll prefer to stick with the old Expanded Universe.

The new canon is kind of depressing, illogical and uncreative. After the Battle of Endor, things got kind of better in the Legends universe under the New Republic. But in the new continuity, the galaxy looks even kind of more depressing than under the Empire during the OT, ROTJ's happy ending was totally ruined and marginalized. And I don't understand (from an in-universe perspective) why the heroes are represented by an independantly acting small militia even though they're on the side of the dominant galactic government? I don't think that's because a lack of creativity, since many fan fictions writers can come up with better and more original ideas (really), it's just because Disney didn't want to take any risks, they knew that some people complained about to much politics in the PT, and therefore they took the "rebellion theme" again because it sold better.

In Universe, I guess you could have some kind of excuse that even though the Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic won against the Empire, it's not guaranteed that they would form a government. In real life there are rebellions that either killed the monarch or totally destroyed the central government of their time, only to disappear from history to be replaced by some other power.

We can say that it is too similar to the OT in some ways but having a defeated Empire make a comeback after a number of years is far more realistic than virtually anything the EU did. As far as what the New Republic turned into just because they won a war doesn't mean they were prepared to run a government. I'll admit there have been several thematic similarities between the two trilogies. But the Canon version of the post ROTJ era is really far far more realistic than legends depiction of it.

Resurgent Empire being realistic? Sure.
But the EU has the Empire surviving and adapting to the changing climate. I think we both can agree the unrealistic scenario would be the Empire being wiped out completely and gone forever.

Resurgent Empire being realistic? Sure.
But the EU has the Empire surviving and adapting to the changing climate. I think we both can agree the unrealistic scenario would be the Empire being wiped out completely and gone forever.

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No the unrealistic scenario was choosing to have an alien invasion. The EU was destined to go off the rails when they decided to go with ridiculous ideas like that.

Resurgent Empire being realistic? Sure.
But the EU has the Empire surviving and adapting to the changing climate. I think we both can agree the unrealistic scenario would be the Empire being wiped out completely and gone forever.

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No the unrealistic scenario was choosing to have an alien invasion. The EU was destined to go off the rails when they decided to go with ridiculous ideas like that.

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Ssi-Ruuk, Yevetha, Nagai, Tof, Kiliks etc.
Moved on from the Empire, And something different from the Sith that came after.

Resurgent Empire being realistic? Sure.
But the EU has the Empire surviving and adapting to the changing climate. I think we both can agree the unrealistic scenario would be the Empire being wiped out completely and gone forever.

Click to expand...

No the unrealistic scenario was choosing to have an alien invasion. The EU was destined to go off the rails when they decided to go with ridiculous ideas like that.

Click to expand...

Ssi-Ruuk, Yevetha, Nagai, Tof, Kiliks etc.
Moved on from the Empire, And something different from the Sith that came after.

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And when the Sith in the EU showed up, at least they called themselves Sith! The Imperial Knights also made efforts to distinguish themselves from Jedi/Sith. The Knights of Ren/Snoke are Sith in all but name...

Resurgent Empire being realistic? Sure.
But the EU has the Empire surviving and adapting to the changing climate. I think we both can agree the unrealistic scenario would be the Empire being wiped out completely and gone forever.

Click to expand...

No the unrealistic scenario was choosing to have an alien invasion. The EU was destined to go off the rails when they decided to go with ridiculous ideas like that.

Click to expand...

Ssi-Ruuk, Yevetha, Nagai, Tof, Kiliks etc.
Moved on from the Empire, And something different from the Sith that came after.

Click to expand...

And when the Sith in the EU showed up, at least they called themselves Sith! The Imperial Knights also made efforts to distinguish themselves from Jedi/Sith. The Knights of Ren/Snoke are Sith in all but name...

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Which makes me think that Rey's new order will be called something other than Jedi, but will still basically be Jedi.